SCHOONER IN A STORM

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 119, 13 February 1926, Page 8

SCHOONER IN A STORM

BATTLE WITH FURIOUS SEAS

RESOLUTION REACHES AUCKLAND

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Auckland, February 12.

After thirteen days’ battling with furious winds and seas, the 70-tdn schooner Resolution, recently built by Norfolk Islanders for the fruit trade with Auckland, dropped anchor last night. The little vessel is manned entirely by Norfolk Islanders, and commanded by as hardy a sea captain as ever weathered the seas, Captain G. Parkins Christian, who carries his 72 years lightly in his massive frame. He is a great-grandson of Fletcher Christian, leader of the Bounty Mutiny in 1789, and his mate, John Adams, bears tlie name of the original John Adams, who rose to the position of responsibility in the little colony of mutineers who settled on the lonely Pitcairn Island. Coming down the coast the vessel encountered a gale, what the captain describes as one of the most persistent hurricanes he ever experienced. “Out in the gulf I thought all New Zealand was on top of us,” he said. “My word, it was terrific.”